Saint Joseph's Catholic Church — LETTERCRAN

Freestanding four-bay Catholic church, built c. 1834, having steeped cut stone bellcote with feathered cut stone coping over to the entrance gable (south-west), added 1905, single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the south-west gable, and with later single-storey sacristy attached to the north-east/chancel. Altered in 1954. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building having terracotta ridge tiles, rendered eaves course, and raised rendered coping/verges to the gable end having cross finials over gable apex to the north-east and moulded kneeler stones to eaves. Pitched slate roofs to porch and later sacristy. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined chimneystack to sacristy. Cut stone cross finial over bellcote. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling with banded channelled quoins block quoins to the corners. Pointed-arched window opening with leaded coloured windows, dated 1954. Square-headed doorway to the south-east face of porch having replacement timber battened door. Flat ceiling to interiors with timber pews, carved marble reredos and altar rails with polychromatic inset colonnettes and panels. Graveyard to site with collection of upstanding, recumbent and table-type memorial monuments. Smooth rendered boundary walls to site. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal capstones and with a pair of wrought-iron gates having arrow finials and with central curved wrought-iron finials. Set slightly back from road in own site adjacent to rural road junction. Located to the north-east of Pettigoe, a very short from the border with County Fermanagh and Northern Ireland.